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...fact, it [the new formula] is less dangerous. The other ingredients in it, alcohol or pyridine, make it less drinkable and neutralize in part the poison effect. It tastes like the seepage of a garbage can flavored with overheated oil. One drink will turn a normal stomach inside...
...when most public men are only beginning to catch the limelight, when Mr. Baldwin was unknown and Mr. Bonar Law had not held office, he looks back on 30 years of romantic adventure that would provide material for a dozen normal lives which would find a place in the Dictionary of National Biography; on experiences of war in more continents than Napoleon fought in; on a library of books that would not do injustice to a life spent in literature, or journalism, lecturing, painting; on a political career more full of vicissitudes than any since that of Bolingbroke...
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...effects of rabies are the same in animals or humans, making proper allowance for the beast's normal way of expressing itself. The first usual symptom in a dog is its abnormal affection. It feels something is wrong and tries to tell its master. It is restless, easily irritated, will snap at objects. Later its throat begins to become paralyzed.* The pain of swallowing even water is terrific. So it avoids water, giving reason for the name hydrophobia. It bites at things or other animals, sometimes so tenaciously that its jaws must be pried open. Saliva drools from...